Literary daybook, Feb. 19

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Joe Conason's Journal

So long, Saddam?

Clear Channel's big, stinking deregulation mess

Is living together a good idea?

Savage with the truth

The best movie you haven't seen

"It's a game between the director and the spectator"

Iron & Wine: "The Creek Drank the Cradle"

What the Cheney White House really wants out of Iraq

Gender-bending

The Mike Tyson carnival freak show

She had me from the time I typed LOL

Joe Conason's Journal

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